Early Islamic art, 650-1100. Constructing the study of Islamic art / Volume 1, (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Constructing the study of Islamic art
• Further Information: Note: Oleg Grabar.
• Authors: Grabar, Oleg
• Contents: Contents: Preface; Introduction. Part I Origins and Context: Islamic art and Byzantium; Islam and iconoclasm; Upon reading al-Azraqi; The iconography of Islamic architecture; Art and architecture and the Qur'an. Part 2 Secular Culture under the Umayyads: Sondages à Khirbat el-Minyeh; Umayyad 'Palace' and the 'Abbasid Revolution'; Notes sur les cérémonies Umayyades; The date and meaning of Mshatta; La place de Qusayr 'Amrah dans l'art profane du Haut Moyen Age; L'art Omeyyade en Syrie, source de l'art islamique; Umayyad palaces reconsidered. Part 3 Fatimid Egypt and the Muslim West: Imperial and urban art in Islam: the subject-matter of Fatimid art; Fatimid art, precursor or culmination; Notes sur le mihrab de la Grande Mosquée de Cordoue; Two paradoxes in the Islamic art of the Spanish peninsula; Qu'est-ce que l'art Fatimide. Part 4 The Muslim East: Sarvistan: a note on Sasanian places; Notes on the decorative composition of a bowl from northeastern Iran; A 10th-century source for architecture. Index.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 709.176709021; Islamic art; Islamic antiquities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000939316
• Related ISBNs: 9781000945508
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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